ROI calculator

See how much revenue accurate time tracking could recover

Manual time tracking loses 1 in 5 billable hours. Move the sliders to estimate the revenue your team is leaving on the table, and what switching to Timely could claw back.

Include everyone who tracks billable time: account managers, designers, engineers, PMs.

Your blended client rate per hour. Use a weighted average if rates vary by role.

Average per person.

Billable hours as a share of hours worked. Industry average is 70–80%.

Forgotten entries, rounding down, short tasks under 15 min going unlogged. Research suggests 20%.

Annual revenue recovered
$449,280
What your team could reclaim in year one with Timely.
Hours recaptured per year
2,995 hrs
~62 hrs/week of recovered billable time
Net ROI
15,500%
Return on Timely spend in year one
Payback period
2 days
How long until Timely pays for itself
Weekly revenue at risk
$11,700
What slips through the cracks each week today
Cost of Timely (Premium)
$2,880
15 × $16/user/month, billed annually
Net annual benefit
$446,400
Recovered revenue minus Timely cost

Where the recovery comes from

We split your recovered revenue across the three biggest sources of leakage in manual time tracking. Every slider move updates the breakdown in real time.

40%

Forgotten time entries

Short tasks, context switches and quick calls that never get logged.

$179,712
35%

Rounding & estimation errors

End-of-day guesswork and rounding down to the nearest 15 minutes.

$157,248
25%

Scope creep & over-servicing

Work done beyond the agreed scope that quietly goes unbilled.

$112,320

Ready to recover that revenue?

Timely's Memory tracker runs in the background and captures every minute, so no billable work falls through the cracks.

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Calculations assume 48 working weeks per year and an 80% recovery rate based on customer data. Actual results vary.